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Event Description

Victoria Folk Music Society(VFMS) weekly gathering -- Everyone welcome jam 6:45pm, Open Stage 7:30pm, Feature Performer Joe Stanton at 9pm; Norway House, 1110 Hillside Avenue, $8 cash at the door Take the musical traditions of Folk, Bluegrass, and country, let them simmer over a few dozen Canadian winters, add a little virtuoso woodshed fingerstyle guitar and lyrics from life, and you have Joe Stanton! Joe’s philosophy of “playing wherever they’ll listen” has taken him and his Martin D-28, on a 30-year journey from his favourite haunts of home on the Sunshine coast, to a concert in a hot air balloon over the Swiss Alps, to The Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and The World Finger-Picking Championships in Winfield, Kansas. Joe’s fingerstyle playing, likened to that of his ... more...